@timjohns.com
I characterize the emergent behavior of complex systems and react accordingly. That could be debugging code, culture building, or coaching for organizational change. Other interests include security and privacy, photography, and road trips.
I think I was in the wrong unit, or more likely, the wrong decade (early 90s). I have two MOSs (63N and 13B), Company sent me up for Soldier of the Year, my gun was consistently Battery and Battalion Top Gun, etc. I have: an ASR. My NGB-22 also shows an NDSM, but it was never even given to me.
Every time we have a chance of Aurora Borealis, I wonder if it bothers my neighbors that approximately every thirty minutes I go out on my deck, look at the sky, drop an F-bomb, turn around, and go back inside.
The Pacific Northwest weather: Making a mockery of humans trying to witness celestial events since at least 13,000 BC.
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Close-up of the nearly full moon from Sunday, March 1
Partial screenshot from weather.com, of the weather report for the night of Monday March 2 for the Seattle area, showing "Partly cloudy skies in the evening, then becoming cloudy overnight.", which indicates it's likely to be cloudy for the lunar eclipse. Also shows Low of 47F, Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph, 18% chance of precipitation. 84% humidity, UV index 0 of 11, Moonrise 5:22 pm, Moonset 6:33 am, Full Moon.
Partial screenshot from timeanddate.com, showing a table with seven rows, each of which is one of the stages of the lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of March 3, along with the footnote "The Moon is above the horizon during the eclipse, so with good weather conditions in Seattle, the entire eclipse is visible." (Poster's note: the Seattle weather at this time is expected to be cloudy)
I took this shot of the moon tonight while trying to get my settings dialed in, but it's quite possibly in vain.
The Pacific Northwest weather: Making a mockery of humans trying to witness celestial events since at least 13,000 BC.
#wawx #pnw #eclipse
This is glorious. This TexPat approves.
I had to stop and think whether I might have already done this entirely by accident back in college.
Yes. But I am UNQUESTIONABLY going to puke, and likely to end up in the ER.
Is there a Polymarket line on what's getting embarrasingly downed next? My money's on a bald eagle, but only because I don't know if a DEW could take down a whole medical helicopter, and that's a lot more on-the-nose than a buzzard.
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Quick, somebody teach GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash to play tic-tac-toe, or we're all gonna die.
On the one hand, I feel like this guy's going to waste a lot of gas and be really disappointed. On the other hand, now I kind of want to build one of these and go driving around looking for random hot spots just because nixie tubes look so cool. blog.balena.io/show-tell-a-...
I feel like I missed something important.
If the OP was referring to underground tests, North Korea is the only option in the last 25, and I'd need to revise my answer from "probably" to "probably not" (or at least "not that you could afford")
25 years ago was 2001. Unless I am unaware of some conspiracy theory (or just wrong, and also failing at Google) the last atmospheric test on Earth was on 1980.
I mean, probably, but you'd probably have to drive around pretty slow, and unless you double up with that time machine, I'm a lot more curious about where you're planning to drive it around...
Eventually, it got down to -25 (I don't recall if that was C or F), and he took a long pause before answering "Yep. It's cold."
I worked as a contractor one winter in Winnipeg, alongside a guy who was from Churchill, who basically wore jeans and a flannel shirt while the rest of us were bundled up like astronauts. It became a running joke to start the day by asking "Is it cold, yet, Sean?" And he'd just say "Nope."
Curious if anyone else's extended family group chat is as off-the-wall as mine? I just posted this question there and am only 80% joking.
<Brother>, if our dog vacation cult business plan pans out, let's see if <Nephew> wants to use the proceeds to start the world's most boring mutual fund.
I'm very willing to try new things, and generally don't have food texture hangups. Also, while I appreciate presentation, I usually don't have any hangups about it either. Bottom line: turns out I don't understand my own mind.
For whatever reason, this actually doesn't sound inherently terrible to me -- until you add the cup and straw, which somehow suddenly flips it revolting.
...and counting.
I totally lost it at :16 when some little kid yelled "<mumble mumble> THOSE DAMN SEAHAWKS!"
(audio up)
Apparently Lynnwood, WA appreciates the outcome of tonight's game.
#seahawks #superbowl
Just this week I was lamenting to @xkallisti.bsky.social that, for someone who never really liked JavaScript, I certainly have written a lot of JavaScript.
I was also joking about it being "all bespoke artisanal hand-crafted code" - I spend about two hours a week and $50 in credits playing around with Claude Code CLI (that's the learning exercise I was talking about), and this is just the output of that experimentation.
(...after reading your new post) hey better yet, let's collaborate and MAKE it a platform. I'll keep working on mostly the front-end, which is currently a SSG Vue SPA, and you could kick off a new bun backend. Huge Bonus: this little side project would certainly give us both a ton to blog about.
...more friction-ful than EITHER WP or Substack, since it's all bespoke artisanal hand-crafted code rather than a platform, so it would probably be you sending me markdown files with a little metadata in frontmatter, but the offer is for real in any case.
Kevin no criticism and I totally get what Charity's talking about there, too, but if you DO find yourself wanting to move off of Substack, I've been intentionally custom developing and hosting my own blog as a learning tool, and I'd be happy to host yours as well. Granted, it's likely to be...
I have met this guy. (I mean maybe not that SPECIFIC "this guy" but yeah)
